Alex Pooley’s Blog

I found this beautiful quote by Teddy Roosevelt, on of all places… “The Trump Blog”. It resonates with me as I have steered my thinking in this direction over the last year.

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
- Teddy Roosevelt

One thing that I have learned is that “reading about” and “experiencing” are two very different things. On top of that, each persons experience is entirely unique and completely their own. These days words like “courage”, and “honor” mean much more to me.